Optimum Capital Strategies

Optimum Capital Strategies provides fee-based investment management and financial planning services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as families, trusts, estates, corporations and charitable organizations. The firm offers tailored portfolio management across equity, ETF and fixed‑income portfolios, plus retirement planning and securities buy‑back services for businesses, with custodial trading through independent brokers.

OCS manages accounts on an individualized basis with an emphasis on diversification, proactive allocation, conservative profit taking and overall risk reduction, and most client accounts are run on a discretionary basis. The firm follows a value-oriented approach that makes strategic use of options (including puts to buy and covered calls), and employs fundamental, technical and cyclical analysis to guide long‑ and short‑term positions.

Notably, OCS uses borrowing (margin) and derivatives within separately managed accounts — practices that are uncommon among similar supported firms — and its Strategic portfolio specifically allows leverage, compound options and other advanced option strategies. As a small, two‑advisor firm managing roughly $33.5 million for about 50 clients, OCS emphasizes block and basket trading to allocate execution fairly across accounts and provides ongoing financial planning services to account holders.